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HEXAGRAM 43 - Determination

Hexagrams

Hexagram 43: Determination

Personal resolution points to a breakthrough, but decisive action is required. As long as you diligently hold your ground and ward off negative tendencies and influences, the good will prevail.

The persistence of negativity, which is that which opposes the good, is a constant in human affairs. Just when it is thought to have been eradicated, up it will pop again, sprouting through some crack in the pavement of civilized society. Evil need not take dramatic or extravagant forms, such as those exhibited in Nazi Germany. Garden-variety lies and deceit are much more common and persistent, but should be rooted out just as diligently. One must be determined to not accidentally feed negativity — either in one's social or professional life, or in one's own soul. In either case, definite rules must be followed for the struggle to succeed.

The first rule: do not compromise with evil. Destructive or exploitive actions must be identified openly for what they are, and discredited. The second: one cannot successfully resist negativity on its own terms. New, positive alternatives that lead away from the source of the problem are generally more successful, and appropriate than trying to counter negativity with raw power. The third rule: the means used to counter negativity must be consistent with the end to be achieved. One cannot stop the spreading of lies by spreading more of them.

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Changing Lines are the part of an I Ching reading that always gives the most
powerful advice about a situation because they represent the factors that are
causing things to change right now.

The odds are against casting a Changing Line (about the same as tossing 3 coins
and having all 3 come up heads). But most castings of an I Ching hexagram (i.e.
six line form) do produce one or more Changing Lines.

If there are Changing Lines, there is also a second hexagram called "Future"
which is created by reversing all the Changing Lines (those marked by a dot in
the middle) into their opposite -- yin into yang and yang into yin. The Future
hexagram is very important because it is the part of an I Ching reading that
predicts the way things are going to go if you follow the advice of the Changing
Lines.